1977 American League

1977 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1977 National League 1977 Major Leagues

1977 American League Leaders and Trailers
1977 Postseason
1977 Season as Seen Through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

Positional Average (Weighted Avg of Options): 0.500 (1-Year) (9-Year) (Long-Run) "

Positional Averages for Pitchers (Wgted Avg of Options): 0.500 "vs. Different Values for Starting vs. Relief Pitchers: (Empirical) (Based on Pitchers who Do Both)


Basic Player Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by pWOPA)
Team	Games	Wins	Losses	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA
Kansas City Royals	162.0	102.0	60.0	264.0	222.0	41.6
New York Yankees	162.0	100.0	62.0	262.0	224.0	37.3
Baltimore Orioles	161.0	97.0	64.0	258.0	225.0	32.8
Boston Red Sox	161.0	97.0	64.0	258.0	225.0	32.7
Texas Rangers	162.0	94.0	68.0	256.0	230.0	25.9
Chicago White Sox	162.0	90.0	72.0	252.0	234.0	17.6
Minnesota Twins	161.0	84.0	77.0	245.0	238.0	7.0
California Angels	162.0	74.0	88.0	236.0	250.0	-14.4
Detroit Tigers	162.0	74.0	88.0	236.0	250.0	-14.9
Cleveland Indians	161.0	71.0	90.0	232.0	251.0	-19.5
Milwaukee Brewers	162.0	67.0	95.0	229.0	257.0	-28.3
Seattle Mariners	162.0	64.0	98.0	226.0	260.0	-34.8
Oakland Athletics	161.0	63.0	98.0	224.0	259.0	-35.4
Toronto Blue Jays	161.0	54.0	107.0	215.0	268.0	-53.3

Ties count as 0.5 win and 0.5 loss. Teams in bold made the postseason. pWins equal team wins plus team games; pLosses equal team losses plus team games.


Expected Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by eWORL)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWORL
Boston Red Sox	250.2	232.8	17.3	45.2
New York Yankees	251.9	234.1	17.3	45.0
Kansas City Royals	251.4	234.6	16.4	44.5
Texas Rangers	250.4	235.6	14.9	42.7
Baltimore Orioles	245.3	237.7	8.1	35.8
Chicago White Sox	246.3	239.7	5.9	34.0
Minnesota Twins	244.4	238.6	5.8	33.6
California Angels	242.5	243.5	-0.3	27.7
Detroit Tigers	241.3	244.7	-4.3	23.9
Cleveland Indians	238.1	244.9	-7.0	20.8
Milwaukee Brewers	237.4	248.6	-11.4	16.4
Oakland Athletics	235.5	247.5	-12.5	15.5
Toronto Blue Jays	231.0	252.0	-21.2	6.5
Seattle Mariners	232.1	253.9	-22.6	6.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	121.2	110.5	0.523	10.7
Chicago White Sox	115.1	104.8	0.523	10.3
Boston Red Sox	116.8	108.2	0.519	8.6
Kansas City Royals	115.4	109.8	0.512	5.6
Minnesota Twins	116.0	110.7	0.512	5.3
Baltimore Orioles	112.2	110.2	0.504	2.0
Texas Rangers	111.0	109.7	0.503	1.3
California Angels	110.6	110.5	0.500	0.1
Detroit Tigers	107.2	109.8	0.494	-2.6
Cleveland Indians	108.5	112.7	0.491	-4.2
Seattle Mariners	102.6	107.8	0.488	-5.2
Milwaukee Brewers	106.5	113.6	0.484	-7.1
Oakland Athletics	101.2	110.4	0.478	-9.1
Toronto Blue Jays	102.0	111.7	0.477	-9.6


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Minnesota Twins	13.0	10.7	0.548	2.3
Oakland Athletics	12.8	11.2	0.534	1.6
Texas Rangers	13.1	12.2	0.518	0.9
Boston Red Sox	10.3	9.6	0.517	0.7
Kansas City Royals	12.3	11.9	0.508	0.4
Detroit Tigers	9.8	9.5	0.509	0.4
Milwaukee Brewers	10.5	10.2	0.506	0.3
Baltimore Orioles	10.7	10.9	0.496	-0.2
Chicago White Sox	9.1	9.5	0.489	-0.4
Seattle Mariners	9.0	9.6	0.483	-0.6
New York Yankees	10.9	11.6	0.485	-0.7
Toronto Blue Jays	9.9	10.7	0.479	-0.9
California Angels	11.5	12.4	0.480	-1.0
Cleveland Indians	10.4	12.8	0.449	-2.4


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Texas Rangers	79.5	70.4	0.530	9.1
Boston Red Sox	77.2	71.3	0.520	5.9
New York Yankees	76.4	70.6	0.520	5.8
Kansas City Royals	76.3	71.0	0.518	5.3
Baltimore Orioles	77.1	72.2	0.516	4.9
California Angels	77.8	75.4	0.508	2.4
Cleveland Indians	75.3	73.9	0.505	1.4
Detroit Tigers	77.7	77.3	0.501	0.4
Chicago White Sox	76.8	77.7	0.497	-0.9
Milwaukee Brewers	74.6	75.7	0.496	-1.1
Minnesota Twins	69.1	73.3	0.485	-4.2
Oakland Athletics	74.1	78.6	0.485	-4.5
Toronto Blue Jays	74.2	80.3	0.480	-6.1
Seattle Mariners	76.3	89.3	0.461	-13.0


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Kansas City Royals	46.5	42.8	0.521	3.7
Minnesota Twins	46.1	44.2	0.511	1.9
Texas Rangers	45.6	44.5	0.506	1.1
Oakland Athletics	47.9	46.8	0.506	1.1
Boston Red Sox	44.9	44.5	0.502	0.4
New York Yankees	42.6	42.2	0.502	0.4
Baltimore Orioles	45.0	44.7	0.501	0.2
Seattle Mariners	45.8	45.6	0.501	0.2
Cleveland Indians	44.1	45.2	0.493	-1.2
Detroit Tigers	46.6	48.1	0.492	-1.5
Milwaukee Brewers	46.5	48.5	0.489	-2.0
Toronto Blue Jays	46.0	48.2	0.488	-2.2
California Angels	42.8	45.0	0.488	-2.2
Chicago White Sox	45.0	48.1	0.483	-3.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1977 American League

Ballpark Factors
Net Win Values
Positional Averages
Replacement Levels
Division of Shared Credit
Event Probabilities

^*Player won-loss records are calculated using Retrosheet play-by-play data. For some seasons, Retrosheet does not have full play-by-play data for all games. In these cases, some games may be missing.
The number of Games shown here are the number of games for which Retrosheet play-by-play data exist and were used in these calculations.

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